Now all machines at home are on Fedora 15!

I spent 30 minutes this morning upgrading my sons’ laptops to Fedora 15. I used a Fedora 15 LiveDVD (installed on a USB) that I had created that included stuff that the standard Fedora 15 LiveCD does not because of space. Tools like LibreOffice, Scribus, Xournal, Inkscape, Thunderbird, mutt, msmtp, wget, arduino, R, lyx, dia, and filezilla. I’ve thrown in blender and some games into the mix as well.

The updates of the systems went super quick (20 minutes to first boot) and then on to Spot’s Chromium repo:

Gnash seems only suitable for objects with ActionScript 2 and below. Most flash ads actually work for my Gnash installation. Lightspark seems to be doing quite an excellent job by following specs released by Adobe under the Open Screen Project. For my build on Ubuntu 10.04, I have gotten sound working though video is garbled. The developers report that it works perfectly for Youtube and Vimeo under 10.10 and later. Luckily Lightspark does a graceful fallback to Gnash when it fails.

Still Alpha quality nonetheless but quite a good hack which needs more financial support. Now – only if they can tie up with the FSF and get some funding. Meanwhile, its tinyogg.com for me!